Tokyo’s shitman
Our friend Mr “Ptyx ” writes us that, ” I live in Nakano …this guy decided to piss off all of his neighborhood by painting his house with a mixture composed of nama gomi and human shit….Looks like there’s is no law applicable to this particular case.” So, I’ve roughly translated the neighborhood’s anti-shitman website.
Nakano’s shitman
—Request for action on Nakano’s “Wa/harmony” man residing at 3-32-9 Yayoicho, Nakano Ward, Tokyo—Household waste and human excrement (of the person in question) is collected and stirred. He boils it all together to create an unbelievable stench which he then towels up to cover all four sides of his house. In addition, he sets out large quantities of feed for pigeon and feral cats. Around those feed boxes, pigeons swarm and squawk incessantly leaving a huge amount of droppings. Everyday the animal noise outside his house increases.
This threatens the life of the neighborhood making a climate of fear and frightening pedestrians and driving away store customers. There has been a drop in business in the vicinity, apartment leases are being canceled, people are moving out, store tenants quitting the area and there are massive expenses for deodorization measures.
In his yard, Nakano’s shitman boils together feces and waste in this pot.
I”m sorry to say that there are plenty of public nuisance and health laws in Japan to cover this situation, but the crappy Japanese courts and Japanese “Wa (å’Œ) police” won’t take action. Shit like this happens all the time in Japan—there was even a Japanese TV program called something like, “Let’s Clean Up This Crapped-out House”.
September 10th, 2005 at 7:10 pm
Neighbors cry foul as Fecal Fogey raises a stink
MSN-Mainichi, September 6, 2005 (By Ryann Connell)
When neighbors of a man in Tokyo’s Nakano-ku complained about the noise of his huge array of chimes and danger of the rocket-sized fireworks he set off in their densely populated neighborhood, he responded to their gripes by pooh-poohing them — literally,
—BIG SNIP—-
….So bad has the damage been, the Nakano Municipal Government ordered his family to fumigate the area in summer last year, and again late last month.
“His brother paid for a sewage truck to come in and vacuum it all up and then disinfect the garden,” a neighbor says. Nonetheless, it seems the Fecal Fogey is so arrogant he seems to believe his own waste doesn’t stink.
“Smell? What smell? I can’t smell a thing,” he tells the women’s weekly.
“The only smell coming from my place is that of fish being cooked. I cook pike, mackerel and garlic. They’re cooking aromas, not smells.” What about the human waste?
“It’s got nothing to do with it,” the Fecal Fogey tells Josei Seven. “I want to leave it in my garden, so I’m leaving it in my garden. There’s nothing wrong with that. Besides, it doesn’t stink, anyway.” (By Ryann Connell)
September 6, 2005